Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today said the country’s borders with Bangladesh and Pakistan would be completely secure in the next two years, with work underway to plug gaps in stretches of about 60km along these two fronts.

A Malaysian court has charged four people including a Malaysian police official over the abduction and torture of a Bangladeshi journalist

Delhi today termed the US charging an Indian national with conspiring to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil as a “matter of concern.”

Bhutan began voting yesterday in the preliminary round of national elections to choose two political parties that will contest the fourth free vote since democracy was established in the Himalayan kingdom 15 years ago

An Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on US soil, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday, in announcing charges against a man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder

Singapore has said it is considering building artificial islands off its east coast to protect low-lying areas against rising sea levels caused by climate change.

Myanmar’s military is carrying out a sustained offensive involving fighter jets to regain control of a key town from an armed ethnic minority group, its fighters and residents said yesterday.

After 17 days trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel they were building, Indian workers described the horror of their ordeal, and the hopes and prayers that kept them strong.

A Pakistan court overturned the conviction of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case yesterday, his lawyer said, removing one of the many obstacles for him to qualify to stand in elections in February.

A Pakistan high court today quashed a graft conviction against three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who returned from self-imposed exile last month to launch a political comeback

When heavy machinery broke down trying to break through the debris trapping 41 workers in a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas, authorities called in a group of people whose profession is effectively banned in the country - "rat-hole mining"

Rescuers are still searching for four missing workers believed to be pinned under the rubble where a building under construction had collapsed at about 9:45pm (local time)

Japan's space agency was hit with a cyberattack but the information the hackers accessed did not include anything important for rocket and satellite operations, a spokesperson said on Wednesday

Three Chinese navy ships have arrived in Myanmar for joint drills with its navy, the country’s junta said, as a border conflict strains ties between the Southeast Asian nation and its most important ally.

Jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was denied an open court trial yesterday, as ordered by a High Court, after the government submitted reports citing threats to his life, his lawyer said.

Indian rescuers today pulled out all 41 construction workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas for 17 days, hours after drilling through the debris of rock, concrete, and earth to reach them, officials said

At least 11 people were killed in an accident at a coal mine in northeast China's Heilongjiang province today, state media said

Indian rescuers today broke through the 60-metre stretch of rubble and completed the pipe-laying at a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, setting the stage for the evacuation of 41 workers trapped inside for 16 days.

Indian rescuers, digging through earth and rocks with bare hands, were today within two metres of the 41 labourers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayan mountains in Uttarakhand for 16 days, the state's Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said

Indian rescue teams digging by hand are within just five metres of reaching 41 men trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 17 days, officials said Tuesday, saying a breakthrough was expected "soon"